Apple — Prineville, Oregon Data Center

Apple’s Prineville, Oregon data center is one of the company’s largest and most important facilities, hosting iCloud infrastructure and increasingly AI inference workloads for Apple Intelligence. Located in the high desert of Central Oregon alongside Meta’s nearby Prineville campus, the facility opened in 2012 and has been expanded multiple times.

Prineville’s location — 160 miles east of Portland at 3,000 feet elevation — provides naturally cool air for much of the year, enabling free cooling for a significant portion of data center operations. Oregon’s hydroelectric-dominated power grid provides low-cost, low-carbon electricity. Apple has powered the Prineville facility entirely through renewable energy since 2014, utilizing direct solar installations and wind power purchase agreements.

The facility hosts Apple’s iCloud services (Photos, Notes, iMessage backups), App Store infrastructure, and increasingly the Private Cloud Compute infrastructure that powers Apple Intelligence — the on-device and cloud AI system launched with iOS 18. Apple designed Apple Intelligence’s privacy architecture specifically for PCE nodes hosted in facilities like Prineville, with verifiable security guarantees that Apple claims even Apple employees cannot access the compute.